www/software software.html

[Karl Berry]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Karl Berry <karl>       07/12/18 16:32:53

Modified files:
        software       : software.html 

Log message:
        move decommissioned packages to their own section

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/software/software.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.116&r2=1.117

Patches:
Index: software.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/software/software.html,v
retrieving revision 1.116
retrieving revision 1.117
diff -u -b -r1.116 -r1.117
--- software.html       17 Dec 2007 22:50:40 -0000      1.116
+++ software.html       18 Dec 2007 16:32:36 -0000      1.117
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
 
-<h2>Software</h2>
+<h2>GNU and other free software</h2>
 
 <p>If you're looking for a whole system to install, see our <a
 href="/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions">list of
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
 other ways to contribute to GNU, see the <a href="/help/help.html">GNU
 help wanted</a> page.</p>
 
-<p>For information on the licenses used on <acronym title="GNU's Not
-Unix!">GNU</acronym> software, and on other free software licenses,
-please see our <a href="/licenses/licenses.html">Licenses</a> page.</p>
+<p>For information on the licenses used on GNU software, and on other
+free software licenses, please see our <a
+href="/licenses/licenses.html">Licenses</a> page.</p>
 
 <p>If you are developing a GNU package, or you are thinking of starting,
 you may be interested in <a href="/software/devel.html">GNU Software
@@ -38,7 +38,47 @@
 see the <a href="/help/evaluation.html">evaluation information and
 submission form</a>.</p>
 
-<p>GNU packages are decommissioned from time to time, generally because
+<p>Finally, here is <a href="/software/for-windows.html">a short
+list of free software for Microsoft Windows</a>, for the Windows
+user who is curious about free software but isn't able to use
+a free operating system yet.</p>
+
+
+<h3 id="getgnu">How To Get GNU Software</h3>
+
+<p>GNU software is available by several different methods:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://agia.fsf.org/order/";>Buy distributions</a> from
+the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/";>FSF</a>. This helps provide the funds
+for the GNU Project.</li>
+
+<li><a href="/order/ftp.html">Download it from the web or via ftp</a>:
+we provide source code for all GNU software, free of charge.
+(Please also make a <a href="/help/donate.html">donation</a> to the FSF,
+if you can, to help us write more free software.)</li>
+
+<li>Get a copy from a friend.<br />
+(Please also make a <a href="/help/donate.html">donation</a> to the FSF,
+if you can, to help us promote free software.)</li>
+
+<li>Buy a computer with a wholly free GNU/Linux system preinstalled
+from <a href="/links/companies.html">one of the companies</a> that can
+offer this.</li>
+
+<li>Get the development sources for a package and build them. That
+way you can try all the latest features. Many GNU packages keep their
+development sources at the GNU hosting site <a
+href="http://savannah.gnu.org/";>savannah.gnu.org</a>. Some packages use
+other source repositories; the package's web pages should say where the
+repository is.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+
+<h3>Decommissioned GNU packages</h3>
+
+<p>GNU packages are occasionally decommissioned time, generally because
 they've been superseded by or integrated into other packages.  Here is
 the list, for the sake of people searching; we leave the old project
 pages up (when they existed), too:
@@ -71,44 +111,7 @@
 <a href="webpublish/">webpublish</a>,
 <a href="xinfo/">xinfo</a>.</p>
 
-<p>Finally, here is <a href="/software/for-windows.html">a short
-list of free software for Microsoft Windows</a>, for the Windows
-user who is curious about Free Software but isn't ready to use
-a Free operating system yet.</p>
-
-<h3 id="getgnu">How To Get GNU Software</h3>
-
-<p>GNU software is available by several different methods:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="https://agia.fsf.org/order/";>Buy copies on CD-ROM</a> from
-the <a href="/fsf/fsf.html">FSF</a>. This helps provide the funds for
-the GNU Project.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/order/ftp.html">Get it by <acronym title="File Transfer
-Protocol">FTP</acronym></a>: we provide source code for all GNU
-software, free of charge.<br /> (Please also make a <a
-href="/help/donate.html">donation</a> to the FSF, if you can, to help us
-write more free software.)</li>
-
-<li>Get a copy from a friend.<br />
-(Please also make a <a href="/help/donate.html">donation</a> to the FSF,
-if you can, to help us promote free software.)</li>
-
-<li>Buy a computer with a wholly free GNU/Linux system preinstalled
-from <a href="/links/companies.html">one of the companies</a> that can
-offer this.</li>
-
-<li>Get the development sources for a package and build them. That
-way you can try all the latest features. Many GNU packages keep their
-development sources at the GNU hosting site <a
-href="http://savannah.gnu.org/";>savannah.gnu.org</a>. Some packages use
-other source repositories; the package's web pages should say where the
-repository is.</li>
-
-</ul>
-</div>
-
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer-short.html" -->
 <div id="footer">
 
@@ -145,7 +148,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/12/17 22:50:40 $
+$Date: 2007/12/18 16:32:36 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>